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Student Loans: Who Protects the Taxpayers?

What! So they gained no benefit from the program? Doesn’t this extend the scam?

Jan. 5, 2018 2:43 p.m. ET

Your editorial “Stopping a Student-Loan Scam” (Dec. 27) states: “A new department directive scales student loan relief based on college employment data. Borrowers who enrolled in programs whose grads earned less than the average of peer institutions will receive 100% debt relief.”

What? So they gained no benefit from the program? Doesn’t this extend the scam? How much is spent in taxpayer money for the staff that processes the claims? How is an applicant even assessed? May the student have been ill-prepared for the advanced...